Traffic accidents are events we encounter in our everyday life. Because of their potentially severe consequences, they also have an important place in Slovenian criminal law. In my master's thesis, I analyse the criminal offences of causing a traffic accident through negligence and dangerous driving in road traffic, as defined in the Slovenian Criminal Code. I compare the two criminalisation and present their place in Slovenian case law. The legislator has the competence of criminal policy judgement. Nevertheless, many rules and principles bind the legislator in formulating the incriminations, precisely one of the most important in criminal law, the lex certa. This principle prevents the arbitrariness of case law. Therefore, the initial question of this thesis is whether the Slovenian legislator has, through adopting and amending the provisions of Article 323 and Article 324 of the Criminal Code, established a sufficiently clear normative framework for the assessment of these criminal offences in practice and in view of relevant legal principles.
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